October, 2005

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About JFo

Jessica (aka JFo) has 9 years experience building user interface libraries at Microsoft. As a developer on the Windows Forms team, Jessica designed and implemented various aspects of the Windows Forms runtime for the 1.1 and 2.0 releases of the .Net Framework. Her current project is the "Cider" designer for the "Dev10" release of Visual Studio.

If you are not familiar with the BackgroundWorker , it is a newly released component within Windows Forms 2.0 which adds safe, easy, multithreading capabilities to your application.
By using a pattern of method calls (RunWorkerAsync, ReportProgress...

Jim asks:
"I've been following your Windows Forms articles, and was hoping that you could post about the correct way to minimize a Windows Form to the tray. The ShowInTask property of the Form is mentioned in newsgroups, but the Form still shows...

Here's three new samples I whipped up recently - hope you find them interesting/useful!
Creating TrackBar for your ToolStrip (ToolStripControlHost sample) Using ToolStrip.LayoutStyle = Table in the designer How to make any old control "readonly" without...

There seems to be quite a bit of confusion around this little old flag that has cropped up in VS 2005.
In Windows Forms 2.0, we added support for drawing GDI text. At first we had grandiose plans of poking and prodding at the DrawText API such that...

Coming in to work today, I was thinking of small improvements that make everyone's life just a little bit better working with the designer experience in VS. I thought I'd come up with the list of five bullet points that may not quite make it to the back...